C. Galeni De compositione medicamentorum kata gene, libri septem, Ioanne Guinterio interprete
A 1530 Paris printing by Simon de Colines of Galen's pharmacological treatise On the Composition of Medicines, in Latin translation by Johann Guinter von Andernach, aimed at physicians and scholars. The pages are dense roman-type text in two columns with a historiated woodcut initial and an ornate printed decorative capital, plus a royal privilege page in a legal typeface. A designer might take the strong black initial letters, tight justified text blocks and classical ornamental borders as models for editorial layout.
